An episode of "I'm ready for my close-up", originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM.
Alex Fitch interviews Helen McCarthy, anime & manga expert about the season of 'Japanimation' films and TV shows she's curated at the Barbican Cinema in London.
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Press release: "Alex Fitch interviews Helen McCarthy, author of 'Hayao Miyazaki - Master of Japanese Animation', '500 Manga heroes and villains' and co-author of 'The Anime encyclopedia' about the season of Japanese animated films she's curated at the Barbican which coincides with the 90th anniversary of the medium. The season continues this month with a sold-out screening of Satoshi Kon's new film Paprika, so Alex and Helen talk about the director as well as the work of his predecessors and contemporaries such as Miyazaki and Ôtomo plus the continuing influence of manga artist Osamu Tezuka."